31.1 About the Role Web Service

To support access by third-party software applications, the Role subsystem includes a Web service endpoint called the Role Web Service. It supports a wide range of role management and SoD management functions.

This Appendix describes the programming interface for the Role Web Service.

31.1.1 Accessing the Test Page

You can access the Role Web Service endpoint using a URL similar to the following:

http://server:port/warcontext/role/service?test

For example, if your server is named “myserver”, your identity applications is listening on port 8080, and your User Application war file is named “IDMPROV”, the URL would be:

http://myserver:8080/IDMPROV/role/service?test

You can also access the SOAP endpoint by going to the Administration within the identity applications. To do this, you need to select the Application Configuration tab, then select Web Services from the left-navigation menu. After selecting Web Services, pick the Web Service endpoint you want from the list.

WARNING:The test page is disabled by default. Since some of the methods allow data to be updated, the test page presents a potential security vulnerability and should not be allowed in a production environment.

Servlet Declaration for the Test Page

A SOAP service using WSSDK is deployed by adding the following declarations in the deployment descriptor (i.e. WEB-INF/web.xml):

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>Role</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>com.novell.idm.nrf.soap.ws.role.impl.RoleServiceSkeletonImpl</servlet-class>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>Role</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/role/service</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</servlet>

This follows the normal servlet declaration pattern. It indicates that the servlet com.novell.idm.nrf.soap.ws.role.impl.RoleServiceSkeletonImpl is deployed at /role/service.

When a user reaches this servlet using a HTTP GET by entering http://server-name/context/role/service (for example, http://localhost:8080/IDMProv/role/service) in their browser, the WSSDK provides a page that exposes some information about the deployed service. By default the page looks like this:

Figure 31-1 SOAP Service with Test Page Disabled

After you enable the test page, the Test Service link is available:

Figure 31-2 SOAP Servlet with Test Page Enabled

On the test page, the user can retrieve the WSDL document that describes the Web Service, see the Java Remote Interface that represents the service, and also see the type mappings from XML to Java. In addition, the user can test the service by invoking individual methods.

Enabling the Test Page

WARNING:The test page is disabled by default. Since some of the methods allow data to be updated, the test page presents a potential security vulnerability and should not be allowed in a production environment.

To enable the test page, you need to update the WEB-INF/web.xml file in the IDMProv.war file. Before you make your changes, the web.xml should look like this:

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>Role</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>com.novell.idm.nrf.soap.ws.role.impl.RoleServiceSkeletonImpl</servlet-class>
  <init-param>
    <param-name>com.novell.soa.ws.test.disable</param-name>
    <param-value>true</param-value>
  </init-param>
</servlet>

Change the servlet declaration, as follows:

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>Role</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>com.novell.idm.nrf.soap.ws.role.impl.RoleServiceSkeletonImpl</servlet-class>
</servlet>

31.1.2 Accessing the WSDL

You can access the WSDL for the Role Web Service using a URL similar to the following:

http://server:port/warcontext/role/service?wsdl

For example, if your server is named “myserver”, your identity applications is listening on port 8080, and your User Application war file is named “IDMPROV”, the URL would be:

http://myserver:8080/IDMPROV/role/service?wsdl

31.1.3 Generating the Stub Classes

Before using the Web Service, you need to use the WSSDK tool or another SOAP tool kit to generate the stub classes. To allow your code to find the stub classes, you also need to add the JAR that contains the stub classes to your classpath.

If you want to use the NetIQ WSSDK tool, you can generate the client stubs by extracting the WSDL and running the wsdl2java utility. For example, you could run this command to generate the stubs in a package called com.novell.soa.af.role.soap.impl:

"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_31\bin\java" -cp "../lib/wssdk.jar;../lib/jaxrpc-api.jar";"../lib/mail.jar";"../lib/activation.jar";"c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_31\lib\tools.jar"; com.novell.soa.ws.impl.tools.wsdl2java.Main -verbose -ds gensrc -d C:\ -noskel -notie -genclient -keep -package com.novell.soa.af.role.soap.impl -javadoc role.wsdl

You can change the wsdl2java parameters to suit your requirements.

31.1.4 Removing Administrator Credential Restrictions

The Role Web Service supports two levels of security, one that restricts access to Role Administrators, and another that restricts access to the authenticated user. The default setting restricts access to all operations to the Role Administrator.

You can modify the settings for security configuration in the ism-configuration.properties file, located by default in the /netiq/idm/apps/tomcat/conf directory. . Each property can be set to true or false. A value of true locks down the operation, whereas a value of false opens up the operation.

You can open up the Role Web Service to authenticated users by setting the RoleService/Role/soap property to false. To open up a particular operation to authenticated users, you need to set the property for that operation (RoleService/Role/soap/operation) to false as well. If you set all of the properties to false, you can open up all operations to authenticated users. The operation names are the same as the names of the methods supported by the service.

Example To ensure that the security configuration opens up all operations within the Role Web Service, the ism-configuration.properties file must have the following setting:

    RoleService/Role/soap = false